rweth

Ok I think I got it .. sometimes you just need a break. So I used the mame v.174 (64bit + NoNag + Hi-score + Forced Directinput) with the following: > mame64.exe -contrast 2.0 -keyboardprovider dinput starwars The mapping of keys suddenly started to work. One semi dumb thing was thinking the left | right mouse click triggered the laser from teh starwars rom .. it doesn't. Its the space-bar .. so when I mapped that to my fore control using xpadder things seem much brigther. Im thinking this is resolved. Must say I really love MAME and look forward to many happy hours of fruitless digital activity!

All I am working with the old starwars rom (1983 atari edition) I have the newest MAME, MAMEPLUS, and v.174 (64bit + NoNag + Hi-score + Forced Directinput) I am trying to get the Microsoft sidewinder dual strike to work with this game with and any all of them and so the first thing I got was xpadder and mapped some buttons for the mouse left click and the mouse right click (since I don't have nor want XP and that controller is part of another project not nativley supported by MS anymore) the numeric digit 5 mouse x & y axis The mouse input works for moving the cursor works fine .. but the keyboard not so much. I cannot get any keyboard action and I have tried a number of crazy uninformed stuff for about 2 hours. ( read data suggests direct input is the solution, but not empirically sadly) I thought I cracked the case with: c:\mameplus>mamep.exe -contrast 2.0 starwars Assign joystick SideWinder Dual Strike USB version 1.0 to player 0 Because it said it assigned the joystick .. but NO. Also this silly thing "-keyboardprovider dinput" ... -mouse .. and sorta everything but the kitchen sink .. NOTHING. The really weird thing is one of the buttons (the D whatever that is) is mapped to none but generates a mouse click. How could I begin to either read up on or get the keyboard input to this game. Frankly the control input for the game map via tab is a absolute mystery to me .. no idea how one navigates through this. Anyway yes complete nube any and all help appreciated.